Russia to share ENR technology with India

Moscow, Jun 8 (PTI) Russia Tuesday said it will share the
enrichment and reprocessing (ENR) technology with India for
production of nuclear fuel for atomic power plants in the
country.

"We plan to set up joint facilities for enrichment and
reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel in India and some European
countries. In China we already have such facility," Sergei
Kiriyenko, the chief of Rosatom State Nuclear Energy
Corporation, said at the 3-day Atomexpo-2010 international
forum.
Russia is completing two nuclear reactors at Kudankulam
NPP in south Indian state Tamil Nadu and is to build six more,
including in Haripur in east Indian state West Bengal.
Kiriyenko also invited the countries involved in
developing atomic energy to invest in nuclear fuel joint
ventures on the Russian soil to ensure sustained fuel supplies
for their power plants.
At its Tuesday's session chaired by Anil Kakodkar, former
chief of India's Atomic Energy Commission, Kiriyenko said
Russia is also creating a buffer stock of nuclear fuel, which
will be under the control of International Atomic Energy
Commission (IAEA) to guarantee the smooth functioning of
nuclear reactors in any part of the world in case of political
and market constraints.
At the start of his speech, Kiriyenko greeted
Kakodkar as the "world's one of the most outstanding" nuclear
scientists, who has made immense contribution to the
development of atomic energy. PTI VS